Fantasy Football Week 1: 3 Players Destined for Insanely Huge Days

Week 1 of fantasy football is the great unknown. Well, unless you can see the future—like I can. I shall now depart upon you some of my future musings that I have gleaned through the matrix of logic. 

There are five players that stand out to me that are going to have abnormally large fantasy days in the first week. If any of these guys are on your team, you should absolutely start them. If any of these guys are playing against you, I am sorry.

Darren McFadden

Darren McFadden missed the entire preseason while battling an injury to his orbital bone. He is fully healed, and he has been for at least a week. The club was just being cautious. McFadden is in excellent shape and ready to roll.

He will be going against a Denver Broncos defense that is amazingly ill suited to stop the run. The Broncos made significant upgrades to their pass rush, but they did nothing but watch their run defense get weaker.

They did bring in Ty Warren to play DT, but he was almost immediately lost to the season. This leaves the Broncos with what is likely the worst defensive tackle tandem in the NFL.

The Raiders were No. 2 in the NFL in rushing last year, and they will likely be No. 1 after Week 1 this year. 

Aaron Rodgers

The Packers will be flying high in front of a ravenous crowd as they celebrate their 2011 Super Bowl by stomping the New Orleans Saints. The Saints defense looked shaky in the preseason, and this is a hard way for them to start the 2011 season.

Rodgers is going to come out firing, and his talented and deep receiver corps is going to get separation and catch touchdowns. 

Jamaal Charles

The Chiefs may run it on every down in this game. Matt Cassel has a rib injury and may or may not play.

Either way, the Chiefs will want to lean on their run game against a weak Bills rush defense. Marcell Dareus can't make every tackle.

If Cassel plays, the Chiefs will want to protect his ribs. If he doesn't play, the Chiefs will want the ball in Tyler Palko's hands for as little time as possible.

Jamaal Charles and his fantasy owners will be the beneficiaries.